Month: July 2010

“Don’t take your toys inside just because it’s raining.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: Is there anything this Grandpa can’t do? Not that I’ve noticed. Boys and guns have gone together since who knows when. These are safe guns. The only

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a songbird will come.” -Chinese Proverb- journal entry: While I love the world I am not what you would call a “tree hugger” although I have hugged a tree before for

“ journal entry: Grandmothers worry more than they did when they were mothers and much more than they did when they were children. I guess that as you live longer, you become acquainted with more things to worry about. One

“Jewelry takes people’s minds off of your wrinkles.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: This is scrapbook jewelry. It just keeps getting better and better. Keeping it in sight is another matter. At first I used tiny, individual, see-through plastic jars for

“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.” -Henry David Thoreau- journal entry: It used to be that scrapbooks were bound books with pages of blank, black paper.

“It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: If you are in one, quit digging.” -Denis Healy- “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” -Napoleon Bonaparte- journal entry: These holes

“When I learned how to sew, I forgot how to cook.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: Scrapbooking borders have always driven me crazy. They are hard to store and thus hard to find when I need them. Everyone comes up with

“Some people like shoes. I like stamps. Some of the older stamps seem kind of goofy now but I’m keeping them. Everything weird comes back.” -Grandma- journal entry: First, let’s get this out of the way. Yes, it is true.

“Order is the shape on which beauty depends.” -Pearl S. Buck- journal entry: I love organizing things almost as much as I enjoy using things. I have a special place in my heart for jars. They always catch my eye.